10/1 Project Presentations--Davidson Clinic

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Davidson Clinic---Walk through an actual experiment

The Davidson Clinic Experiment

You are the personnel director of the Davidson Pediatric Clinic, a rather large facility which employs over 50 persons, including pediatricians, nurses, secretaries, receptionists, and housekeeping and maintenance personnel.

At the center of the clinic is a large waiting room where the parents and babies wait to see the doctors. The babies in that waiting room cry so much that many employees are unable to concentrate on their work. As a result, morale among the employees is very low, and several persons have reported headaches and other-related symptoms. The executive director of the clinic has come to you with this problem and has asked you to do something about it.

You have observed the interactions among all persons in the waiting room and have determined that the crying almost always begins when the babies see a nurse. The nurses in the clinics always wear white caps, white uniforms, white hose, and white shoes. You wonder if the sight of a nurse dressed this way is frightening to the babies. Perhaps the babies would cry less at the sight of a woman wearing more colorful clothes. You decide to do an experiment to determine if that is indeed the case.

1. Identify the problem

2. Review the literature. (What past research would you want to review?)

3. Formulate the hypothesis.

3a. Identify the variables in your hypothesis.

Independent Variable______________________________________________________

Dependent Variable ______________________________________________________

4. Chose the research design. (In this case, the experimental method.)
4a. Which group of babies will be in the control group?

4b. Which group of babies will be in the experimental group?

5. Collect the data. (Actually conduct the experiment.)

6. Analyze the data.

7. Draw conclusions and report findings.

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